A flotilla of small boats has rescued more than 40 people from an Air Niugini plane that crashed into a lagoon in the South Pacific nation of Micronesia. The Boeing 737-800 aircraft hit the

Washington and Beijing have been at loggerheads in recent months - from an escalating trade war to a military and political standoff. Addressing permanent members of the UN Security Council, including France, Russia and Britain,

Pakistan's new government, headed by new Prime Minister Imran Khan, has inherited strained relations with two key countries, India and the United States. Observers are questioning how the country's new leadership will seek to reshape its foreign

While Afghanistan is making some progress on women's rights, some change is taking longer. Only a tiny percentage of licenced drivers are women, and many of them often face abuse and threats from men

Germany has beaten Turkey for the right to host the UEFA European Championship in 2024, the first major football event to be held in the country since hosting FIFA Women's World Cup in 2011

LONDON: Suffering has become the status quo in Syria but the casualties of its seven-year conflict are drifting from the public eye. The world’s attention span dwindled with the decline of Daesh in the

LONDON: Suffering has become the status quo in Syria but the casualties of its seven-year conflict are drifting from the public eye. The world’s attention span dwindled with the decline of Daesh in the

BERLIN: Germany’s Angela Merkel hosts Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Berlin Friday to try to repair badly frayed ties, a task complicated by planned anti-Erdogan protests and the chancellor’s own domestic woes.The pair

Long gone are the days when authoritarian leaders of the Global South, like Muammar al-Gaddafi and Hugo Chavez, were stealing the show at the United Nations General Assembly meetings in New York. Today, it

Sao Paulo - In less than two weeks, Brazilian voters will head to the polls choose a new president. It's been a turbulent contest so far, packed with drama, including an assassination attempt on Jair Bolsonaro,